This page consists of simple, but powerful thoughts
to consider, which I was either exposed to or
considered myself this summer.
While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the following:
In medical school, students are required to first observe, then demonstrate, and lastly teach other students a procedure. It is not until they have taught the procedure that they are considered competent in that skill.
What occurred to me was how can we give our students opportunities to teach other students?
Eyejot? : Classroom newsletter, student generated lesson summary, communication with parents via teacher or student...?
Flickr? : Enrichment lessons, alternative assessment...What about the Smarties photo?
While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the following:
When students are introduced to a new "button" they instantly push it and continue to do so until they figure out the correct sequence to its intended purpose or outcome. On the other hand, when a teacher is given a new "button" they instantly ask what they should do with it.
Just food for thought.
"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." -
-- Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
Over the past three years, I have suggested and requested, we compile a lesson bank comprised of successful lessons from each of you. While reading A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink, I came across this:
And Xerox - recognizing that its repair personnel learned to fix machines by trading stories rather than by reading manuals - has collected its stories into a database called Eureka that Fortune estimates is worth $100 million to the company.
Same theory, different business.
Screencasts, Google Maps, and Google Custom Search Engines...your turn
"Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers." --Gilbert Highet
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
This page consists of simple, but powerful thoughts
to consider, which I was either exposed to or
considered myself this summer.
While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the following:
In medical school, students are required to first observe, then demonstrate, and lastly teach other students a procedure. It is not until they have taught the procedure that they are considered competent in that skill.
What occurred to me was how can we give our students opportunities to teach other students?
Eyejot? : Classroom newsletter, student generated lesson summary, communication with parents via teacher or student...?
Flickr? : Enrichment lessons, alternative assessment...What about the Smarties photo?
While at a conference this summer a presenter shared the following:
When students are introduced to a new "button" they instantly push it and continue to do so until they figure out the correct sequence to its intended purpose or outcome. On the other hand, when a teacher is given a new "button" they instantly ask what they should do with it.
Just food for thought.
Over the past three years, I have suggested and requested, we compile a lesson bank comprised of successful lessons from each of you. While reading A Whole New Mind, by Daniel Pink, I came across this:
And Xerox - recognizing that its repair personnel learned to fix machines by trading stories rather than by reading manuals - has collected its stories into a database called Eureka that Fortune estimates is worth $100 million to the company.
Same theory, different business.
Screencasts, Google Maps, and Google Custom Search Engines...your turn
"Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers." --Gilbert Highet
"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." --Ralph Waldo Emerson